Burial-vault.



J. HECTOR.

BURIAL VAULT.

;;- APPLICATION FILED NOV.21. 1912. v

1,069,470 Eatented Au 5, 1913.

. offset, its inner separating and which will present a neat appearanceat the ]01nt between the mem- .bers, the arrangement-being such that thetogether.

able material such as concrete.

JESSE RECTOR OF ALBIA, IOWA,

ASSIGNOR {1'0 WILLIAM EECTQR, QF ALEXA, IOWA.

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ncense.

Application and November 21,

specification of Letters iatent.

Patented Aug. 5,12%)13.

mic. serial no. waves.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, Jnssn Known, citizen of the United States, residingat Albia, in the county of Monroe an tate of Iowa, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Burial-Vaults, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to an in burial vaults.

The primary objectof the invention is to provide a burial vault which,while sufficiently substantial for the purpose intended, may beconveniently handled, the con struction being such that the sections ofwhich the vault is formed are of practically the same weight, the upperor'lid member providing an equal portion of the side walls with thelower receiving member.

A further object of the invention is to provide sealing grooves in themembers so disposed as to lock the members against improvementsealingmaterial may be readily placed in position even though the meeting"edges of the sections are disposed at a point intermediate the top andbottom of the-vault.

In the drawingsrFigure 1 is a perspective view of the top section; Fig.2 is a per spective view of the bottom section; and Fig, 3 isa'transverse section taken through the sections when assembled andcemented drawings 10 designates the base section which is formed ofsuit- The section is substantially rectangular, being of theproperconfiguration to receive a cas 'et. -A

flange 11 is formed at the edge of the cas- In the or receiving ing,extending above and at right angles to v the edge 19. on which the loweredge 12 of the upper section 13 rests. The flange is face 14 beingspaced from the side wall 15 of the upper section. The face of the sidewall 15 of theupper section is provided with grooves 16 and 17 arrangedone above the. other and extending completely around the section. Agroove 18, which is deeper than the grooves 16 and 17 is formed abovethe groove 17 and the upper edge of the flange 11. The flange 11 on itsinner face 1 1 is provided with grooves 19 and 20 which are disposed toaline with the grooves 16 and 17 of the upper section. A groove 21 isformed in the flange adjasealing compound, it "may be poured along theside of the upper shortening of cent its face remote from the section13, the grooves 21 and 18 being disposed at right .angles. These groovesreceive the being noted that it section, passing along the outer face ofthe side wall ot the upper section, one face 0 the flange 11 enteringthe alined grooves 16 and 17 of the upper section and the grooves 19 and20 of the lower section, the sealing compound being interposed betweenthe sections. After the space between the sections has been filled withthe sealing compound 22, the compound is poured between the flange andthe upper section,

being sloped in toward the outer face of the flange, the compoundentering the grooves 18 and 21. By this construction it will be notedthat the outer faces of the side walls of the two sections arepractically continu ous, the sealing compound at thepointwhere thesections are connected being of sufficient width to withstand anyinclinatiori of -the sections to separate. The sealing coi'fipound soconnects the sections that vertical movement of the upper section isprevented, the material locking movement by. entering the alined groovesof the sections. It will also be noted that any tendency toward lateralmovement of the sections will be prevented by the thick the anglebetween the sections. and lower sections are of practically the sameheight and are of substantially the same weight, the flange 11, however,slightly adding to the weight of the lower section which is in partcompensated for by the the side wall of the lower section ad acent theflange. The advan tages of constructing the vault in this manner will beapparent, as it will be noted that in handling the sections one may bemoved as readily as the other, which is not the case where a hea tybottom or receiving section must be inserted within the ground or placedupon the shelves of the receiving vaultand a lid section then attached.It will also be seen that the casket may be placed in the sectionproperly positioned, the desired portion of the casket being exposeduntil the top section is applied, the lower section merely embracing thebase of the casket. It will thus be noted that will practically beconcealed until it is dein the angle ridge of the compound which isdisposed in The upper the sections against this lower section and theupper the lower section sired to close the vault, the sealing of thevault being accomplished in a much sim her manner than where a sealingcompoun is interposed between a lid member and an upstanding side wallof a receiving member. Having thus'described the invention, what I claimas new is:

A biirial vault comprising upper and lower sections, the lower sectionbeing formed with a flange, the upper section having its edge portionembraced by the flange, the outer faee of the upper section and theinner face of the lower section being formed oeaevo with grooves, therebeing a deeper groove formed in'the upper section at a point above whereit e'ontacts "with the lower section, the flange being formed with agroove, and a sealing compound disposed to enter "the grooves of the uper and lower sections.

In testimony Wnereof I aflix my signature 20 in presence of twowitnesses.

J. T. MCGUIRE, GUS W. Hei er.

